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Hundreds move to new houses from remote areas in a Tibetan county as part of a poverty alleviation project. Liu Xiangrui reports.

Hundreds of people in Quxu county in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region, have relocated to a new settlement provided by the government under a poverty alleviation project. The new community, named Sanyou village, was built in four months from scratch.

In July, some 760 villagers from various places, especially remote mountain areas, started to move in.